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The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables and rising sea levels. This book highlights how in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these issues we risk the disruption of economic progress.

Brown is president of the Washington, D.C.-based Earth Policy Institute, an organization dedicated to building an eco-economy, and has 50 years of experience working with agricultural and environmental issues. He presents an updated and expanded edition of his 2003 text proposing... Read Full Overview

Lester Brown notes that if the environmental trends of recent decades continue, the global economy will soon begin to unravel. The food sector, he believes, is the most vulnerable. Record-high temperatures and falling water tables are already taking the edge off grain harvests... Read Full Overview